Comments on: Free Jena 6? I Don’t Think So

By: Dr. Jones

Dr. Jones — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:54:42 +0000

Ron, thanks for the updates on this. Did Mychel ever go to college or anything?

By: Ron From Lower Alabama

Ron From Lower Alabama — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:43:26 +0000

OK I see that this has fallen to the wayside. I’m glad to see that it’s not something that gets unnessasary attention. But facts need to be straight to close this.
1. No one got hit with a bottle. That was a later incident that was made up for more attention.
2.Mychel was the star football player and when he went to jail the school did not have a chance at a playoff.
3.Mychel was held for violating his parol not for the assault alone.
4. His parol also was based on a sexual assault.
When those facts where brought to light all media attention stoped and Mr Sharpton was gone before the boy was release from jail. Funny what people will do for attention. The term nigger came from ignorant slave traders calling nigerians niggers. The fact that we give that word power makes us just as ignorant and those black slave traders that sold their own countrymen into slavery. Look it up. Knowledge is power.

By: Mary_from texas

Mary_from texas — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:22:52 +0000

Its unfair to judge these six boys. I mean they were totally wrong and went about handling the situation wrong. They shouldn’t have jumped that boy. But then again people get assulted every single day. In the south racial slurs are thrown at blacks all the time. I myself have seen a man jumped by 10+, but was he on the news crying about it. So *anthony carter* the real pussy is Justin Barker being ignorant and incosiderorant of other people. If he had anything to do with those nooses, well he got his. And they got theirs for not being able to control their anger after being attacked themselves and handling their situation completely wrong. And if you yourself are not african american then you dont know what it feels like to see a noose hanging from the trees. I live in stepneville, tx. People open your eyes racism exist. I see confederate flags, nooses, and bumper stickers on tucks that says “I’m a coon hunter”. So i am behind the boys because i know what it feels like to be descriminated and hated againsts just because the the color of my skin.

By: anthony carter

anthony carter — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:36:16 +0000

i am a 20 year old white male and my personal opinion the six black males are a buncha pussies.who gives a shit about nooses or name callin it aint hurt them.and yea maybe he shulda got hiz punk ass whooped but not by all six of them.it shulda been a one on one fight and let it be over wit but they wuz to scared to do that.

By: ggg53

ggg53 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:16:45 +0000

well im with Kbranch and nikkidee. im african american but i believe they shouldn’t have jumped him.

By: edaw2

edaw2 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:07:22 +0000

I think the whole entire thing was terrible in general, but im just saying that there was a black kid in this whole thing that got beat up too if i recall correctly and from the pics that I saw of him after the fight… or jumping, or whatever… the beat that happened to the black kid was worse. And I didnt see any of the white kids going to jail…. Hmmmmm?!?!?!

By: xbriellx

xbriellx — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:45:33 +0000

I think that there should be consequences for what they did to Baker. I do understand where they might have been coming from. To them, it might have seemed like the nooses were a threat and that they were paying homage to the lynchings in the 1920′s of inncoent African Americans. However, there was no reason to assault Justin Baker. That was wrong and they should suffer the consequences. Although the charge of second degree muder in my opinion was a bit extreme. No one was killed. I believe that they should be tried for assault and sentenced to at least 2 years in jail to think about what they did.

By: KBranch

KBranch — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:05:26 +0000

I come from a mixed background. There is not one completely black person in my family going back three generations; yet, acknowledging we are still considered black, African-American, colored and that offensive term “nigger”. It hurts to see that with so many changes in the United States to benefit “our people” we resort to efforts of such animalistic nature to deal with our problems of today. I personally do not think Martin Luther King (believed in non-violent action) or Malcolm X (a complete polar opposite) would have stood for something like what the “Jena 6″ did. True enough racism is still alive and kicking but we make it so easy for this cycle to continue. Using slang, profanity and other vernacular terms to get a point across sets one up to allow someone to chop us down to size and left without a leg to stand on. I myself am not offended when I hear someone refer to me as a “nigger” it only makes me smile to see someone still have such hate and ignorance inside with no real merit. I understand that tension was building due to a series of different events that took place over a time span but honestly if one of the “Jena 6″ and been a relative of mine I would hope that the law would deal with him accordingly. There is no excuse to violate anyone personal space or body for any reason other than self-defense. Clearly, the incident at hand was not that. It was a crime of passion more than self-defense. They were angry and they acted on their anger by assaulting someone. That’s just like saying it’s okay the black boy A shouldn’t be punished for hitting black boy B because black boy B talked about Black boy A’s mother. It is wrong no matter what race you are and there are no justifications for the” Jena 6″ actions. With this being said there are African-American democrats out there that see things just as clearly as Anglo Saxon, Italian, Hispanic, Asian, and African-American republicans do. I do not appreciate categorization but I can understand how this happens to my community due to others ill use of wordage.

By: Nikkidee

Nikkidee — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:05:54 +0000

well this is my point of view and i dont have a whole book to write….racism comes from every where…NOT JUST BLACKS…people love to say and especially white people love to say black people pull the race card….its not just blacks…i have heard it from blacks, whites, mexicans, puerto ricans, jews and yes even ITALIANS…and here it is the world is full of racist people…. and jim you can trace your ancestry and say WE SHOULD NOT HYPHEN OUR NATIONALITY????? GET REAL….WHO WERE THE FIRST TO HYPHEN OUR NATINALITY???? EXACTLY…and you can trace yours well let me trace mine….my dads family came from Barbados and moved to louisiana in the early 1960′s then later on they moved to birmingham..the same with my mom’s side…..instead they came straight to the south and they werent direct decendants of Africa but my great great great grandmother was….
and the joke thing…THINK ABOUT IT??? arent you the same way about jokes aimed at other nationalities????
and i do not know how to take the thing you said about us not having a word for white people ummmm…get real WE DO HAVE A WORD FOR WHITE PEOPLE ALL AROUND….crackers,honkeies, albino gorrillas,red necks, back wood hillbilles, and the list go on and on….but my point before you something about words arent illegal they may not be illegal but they hurt….and you would not understand how far that goes back to our cultural past the word nigger and nooses goes a long way back and some of us are apart of the nation but get serious you do not know what it is like….you are on the outside looking in…but in other ways I respect your opinon but I disagree on some of your points…
Oh and P.s. If you had not noticed I AM AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN….AND I CALL MY SELF THAT BECAUSE
1) I AM OF AFRICAN DESCENT AND PROUD OF IT
AND
2) IAM ALSO AMERICAN AND DAMN PROUD TO BE ONE!!!!
AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION WE DONT SEPERATE OUR SELVES FROM AMERICA AMERICA SEPERATES THIER SELVES FROM US BECAUSE OF THE RACIAL INGOCNITO SLURS THAT ARE AIMED AT US

By: Change4better88

Change4better88 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:56:44 +0000

yea its not about nooses to white folks becuz they dont understand how it feels, even white people who are not racist dont understand so its easy to say nooses aren t a big deal when actually its a extremely big deal to anyone who cherishes their heritage and cultural history